Statewide

• Surgical techs in New Jersey earned an average of $21.24 per hour and $44,180 per year as of 2009, according to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The lowest-paid 25 percent of scrub technicians in the state earned wages of $18.20 hourly and $37,850 annually or less. The highest-paid fourth surgical techs in New Jersey received wages of $24.25 per hour and $50,470 per year or more.
  
  

Central New Jersey

• Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties were the lowest-paying areas for surgical technologists to work in New Jersey as of 2009, according to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Salaries in the counties averaged $42,180 per year, approximately 5 percent below the statewide mean rate of pay. In Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset and Ocean counties, surgical techs received an average of $42,400 annually. Those working in Mercer County made an average of $42,490 per year, the highest wages in central New Jersey.
  
  

Remainder of the State

• Surgical techs in Bergen, Hudson and Passaic Counties enjoyed the highest average annual wages in all of New Jersey as of 2009, according to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Wages in the counties averaged $47,830 per year, around 8 percent above the statewide average. Technologists working in Essex, Morris, Hunterdon, Sussex and Union Counties received an average of $44,150, the second-highest wages statewide. In Atlantic County, scrub technicians earned an average of $43,740 annually.
  
  

Education

• As of April 2011, six schools on seven campuses in New Jersey carried accreditation from the Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Five of these schools granted diplomas and certificates: Atlantic Cape Community College in Mays Landing, Bergen Community College in Paramus, Sanford Brown Institute in Iselin, Sussex County Community College in Newton and Dover Business College in Clinton and Dover. The program at Eastwick College in Ramsey culminates in an associate degree.